Araghchi calls for reduction in costs of Iran-US differences
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has called for the implementation of relevant management strategies to reduce the cost of Iran’s standing differences with the United States.
“We have to implement [relevant] management [strategies] so that the cost of Iran’s differences with the United States [can] be reduced,” the top diplomat said on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Press TV reported.
He said channels of communication between the two countries are constantly there.
The official, however, noted that some of the Islamic Republic’s differences with the US were “very substantive and foundational.”
“Those differences may not be solvable, but we have to adopt [relevant] management [courses of action] so that their costs and [standing] tensions [can] be reduced.”
Araghchi made the comments a day after warning Washington against resumption of its so-called “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran.
The first version of the American policy was met with “Maximum Resistance” from Tehran, resulting in Washington’s “Maximum Defeat,” he wrote in a post on X.
“Attempting ‘Maximum Pressure 2.0’ will only result in ‘Maximum Defeat 2.0’. Better idea: try ‘Maximum Wisdom’—for the benefit of all,” he wrote.
The US adopted the policy under former president Donald Trump, unilaterally leaving a historic and multi-party nuclear agreement with Iran, and resuming the illegal sanctions that the deal had lifted.
The sanctions, preserved under the administration of US President Joe Biden, have restricted the financial channels necessary to pay for basic goods and medicine, undermining supply chains by limiting the number of suppliers willing to facilitate sales of humanitarian goods to the Islamic Republic.
Trump, who has been re-elected the US president, now seeks to ramp up the economic measures even further, despite warnings and pieces of advice issued by Iran against fueling the tensions between the countries.